Sr. Database Administrator (SQL Server) - Remote

Harbor Freight Tools; Calabasas (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading retailer as a Senior Database Administrator where you'll manage and optimize database technologies in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment. This role involves high-level technical expertise, problem-solving abilities, and mentoring junior team members. If you excel in database management and enjoy collaborative work, this opportunity awaits you in sunny California.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of database platforms and architecture.
• Proven experience in managing and optimizing databases.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform core DBA functions across multiple database systems.
• Provide mentorship to junior DBAs.
• Analyze and optimize system performance.

Skills

Technical expertise

Problem-solving

Communication

Performance tuning

Database configuration

Job description

The Senior DBA is responsible for providing subject matter expertise in one or more database platforms. This role requires performing DBA duties along with interaction with cross-division subject matter experts in Infrastructure, Storage, Analytics & business users of mission-critical environments of HFT's database technologies. This position requires strong data architecture, logical, and physical modeling, and effective communication skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to one or more database technology.
• Ability to perform core DBA functions in more than one database management system
• High-availability strategies including Clustering, Mirroring, Replication, Log shipping, & AlwaysOn Availability Groups, Standby Servers.
• Installation, administration, and troubleshooting of heterogeneous database systems
• Allocate systems storage and develop plans for future growth requirements
• Experienced, self-reliant individual able to solve complex database issues with little instruction
• Provide mentorship to DBA’s and Jr. DBA’s instilling solid database concepts; leveraging industry best practices
• Defines high-level standards for database management (and own responsibility for them)
• Analyze system performance; identify problems and implement solutions; review and tune complex SQL statements
• Work with the Database, IT and DevOps teams to maintain databases and perform database maintenance including patch and release management
• Goes deep into one or more areas of specialization (e.g. Performance tuning, Hardware / Virtualization / Storage, High Availability & Disaster Recovery, Automation & code for management of a high volume of instances), and own responsibility for complex issues in that area
• Performs logical design and physical implementation of data services layer.
• Diagnose user issues and responding “tickets”
• Modifies database configuration in response to ongoing issues and new releases
• Creates database objects such as stored procedures, triggers, and packages, and performs tuning, database administration, and troubleshooting.
• Supports multiple system environments (in-house and external) for development, testing, and production releases.
• Proactively diagnose and resolves problems affecting database performance
• Proactively tune database systems such as analyzing query plans, index tuning, troubleshooting database blocking and resolving deadlocks to meet business SLAs
• Participates in 24x7x365 on-call support rotation, as well as evening and weekend maintenance and deployment cycles as needed.
• Participates in special projects and performs additional duties as required.
• This person will work with a cross-section of internal IT organizations, including other DBA's, analysts, developers, and management teams.
• Plan and implement effective backup, recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Perform system builds and comply with security standards, release management, change management and quality assurance standards
• Ability to Identify and implement process improvements in various database aspects - Control, performance monitoring, user access and database security
• Adhere to corporate standards with respect to problem resolution, change and configuration management
• Able to work individually as well as in a team-oriented environment
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Additional Duties as assigned by management
• Regular Attendance is required

Scope

• Staff supervision and Development –No
• Decision Making – See examples below *
  • Provides data for decision support
  • Drafts policy documents and resolves problems
• Travel –
• Location –Remote Anywhere

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About the company

Harbor Freight Tools is a privately held discount tool and equipment retailer, headquartered in Calabasas, California, which operates a chain of retail stores, as well as a mail-order and e-commerce business.

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